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Scholars of adolescence have identified parents and peers as two important contexts of development. This dissertation examines an understudied linkage between these two contexts: parents' management of adolescents' ...

This dissertation presents original computer vision algorithms to automate the identification of piping and photogrammetric piping features in individual digital images of industrial installations.
Automatic identification ...

In this dissertation we analyse from a qualitative standpoint motion in a quasihomogeneous potential field: we offer a complete description of the flow associated with the two-body problem in quasihomogeneous field, obtain ...

With the evolution of multimedia systems, image and video compression is becoming the key enabling technology for delivering various image/video services over heterogeneous networks. The basic goal of image data compression ...

This study examines price formation in one of the largest wholesale electricity
markets in the world: the Pennsylvania Jersey Maryland Interconnection, which
serves 13 states and the District of Columbia with over 60 ...

The ARIEL electron linac is a 0.3MW accelerator that will drive the production of rare isotopes in TRIUMF's new ARIEL facility. A planned upgrade will allow a second beam to be accelerated in the linac simultaneously, ...

The interactions of tumours with normal host tissue are key determinants of cancer growth and progression. The ability or inability of the patient’s immune system to mount a response against the tumour is tightly correlated ...

Drawing on principles of social domain theory, the current study examined children’s attributions of emotion and moral judgements when interpreting moral and mixed sociomoral transgressions. A goal of the current study was ...

Structural optimization is an important field in engineering with a strong foundation on continuum mechanics, structural finite element analysis, computational techniques and optimization methods. Research in structural ...

Vestimentifera inhabit hydrothermal vents, cold-water seeps and other marine reducing habitats. The objectives of this study were to analyse phylogenetic relationships among the extant species and their affinities to ...

This thesis uses the powerful mathematics of wavelet packet signal processing to efficiently extract features from sampled acoustic spectra for the purpose of discriminating between different classes of sounds. An algorithm ...

Optical modulation of the physical properties of materials is important for future development of optical memories and switches, optoelectronics, and smart surfaces. Incorporation of an optically bistable photochromic ...

This study establishes the stratigraphic framework and conodont biostratigraphy
of Lower Paleozoic strata of the Northern Canadian Cordilleran Miogeocline, which
document a non-passive tectonic evolution of the rifted ...

Estuaries, the regions where runoff of fresh water, soil, and contaminants first
encounter the ocean, are also primary fishing and recreation areas. It is therefore important to understand the dynamics associated with ...

The purpose of this study is to explore the implications of the historical perspective when it is linked to the ecological concept of adaptive management. The vehicle for this exploration is a genetically distinct population ...

This is an outcomes based program evaluation which used a nonequivalent control-group design to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of Applications of Mathematics 10 in British Columbia public schools. The ...

Mutations are generally thought to be targeted events. The distribution of mutations is based upon the initial original deposition of DNA damage and the fidelity and efficiency of repair of this damage. These factors are ...

Postcolonial theorists tend to read metaphor generally as a trope of power that synthesizes its inherently binary structure of tenor and vehicle to produce totalizing meanings. Although some critics have emphasized the ...